Men, Women and Animals Swept by the Flood

Series TitleBonorum et Malorum Consensio

Artist Johannes Sadeler I (Flemish, active 1550 - ca. 1600)

Date1586

MediumEtching and engraving

DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 10 3/4 inches (20.16 × 27.31 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Laurence Sickman

Object numberF88-48/12

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Exhibition History

The Human Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 29, 2010-June 6, 2011, no cat., as Men, Women and Animals Swept by the Flood.

The Human Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 18, 2018-January 13, 2019, no cat., as Men, Women and Animals Swept by the Flood.

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, no. 77.

Gallery Label

The Flood and Noah’s Ark were universal Christian symbols of destruction and salvation, and the subjects also tested the inventive powers of artists. Here human beings are engulfed by the storm, accompanied by various marine creatures. The artist employs vigorous hatching strokes on the waves to convey the apocalyptic drama.

Provenance

Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by December 19, 1988;

Bequeathed by Laurence Sickman to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1988.

Published References

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 – 1700, vol. 21, Sadeler: Text (Amsterdam: 1980), no. 43.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 – 1700, vol. 22, Sadeler: Plates (Amsterdam: 1980), no. 43.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 289, as Men, Women, And Animals Swept by the Flood, Pl. XV, from Bonorum et Malorum.

Occidental Graphics from the Collection of Laurence Sickman, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13- October 18, 1992, p. 11.

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